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pro-government media in syria are appalled to air bases of b. that attacked with missiles but say they beat into savage. i'm sam he's a dad this is al jazeera live from the house so coming up another setback for donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen forced to reveal the identity of a t.v. host a key supporter of the u.s. president. polls family members of embassy staff out of cuba over fears of a mystery illness. and we traveled deep inside the democratic republic of congo to try and the fate of thousands of people displaced by ethnic violence.

pro-government media in syria are reporting missile strikes on two government bases in homs and damascus state television broadcast these pictures in the past few hours it says missiles were intercepted over shyer our air base in homs this area was targeted by u.s. forces last year the pentagon is denying any involvement in the latest strike shortly afterwards has been laws media units reported that a base in the wire outside of damascus was targeted with missiles intercepted. state television made no mention of vast attack phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. she is warning about the danger of escalation in syria i think the real danger here if we take one step back is what is the danger of serious escalation at this point were these two incidents if they indeed happen and let's be clear they may not have happened at all the way we're hearing if they happen the way we're hearing. is it

likely to be in gendering a new response now that could seriously look like a major escalation is this something that could lead to a direct attack between a by israel against iran would it be seen that way would we would iran retaliate is this something that might involve. russia at this point who is of course allied with both the syrian government and with iran in which case would the united states enter directly on the israeli side of israel was involved so this is one of those situations where the possibility of escalation is very very serious and until we know who is responsible and what actually happened i think it's quite dangerous to do this kind of speculation although i'm somewhat participating in it i think that it's very important that we wait until there are clear. sources from outside

independent sources that are confirming what if anything in fact it happened we faced a similar problem last week when there were the claims about a chemical weapons attack and before there was confirmation we heard the announcement that the u.s. intended and in fact did along with britain and france used a new set of of missile attacks to retaliate we still don't know because we still have not heard reports from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons what in fact happened was there a chemical weapons attack at all if there was what kind of chemical was involved how many people it said or we don't have any of that information similarly the reports that have come in just in the last few hours about two new possible missile attacks we don't have clear information we don't know yet what happened and we certainly don't know who is responsible the reported strikes follow the mobilization of government forces in homs so i know holder has more on that.

this could be the start of a new offensive against rebel territory hopes. the syrian government appears to be turning its attention to the strategic region following its victory in eastern huta much of the central province has been recaptured in recent years but the opposition has long held an enclave in the northern countryside that area is strategic for damascus if it wants to secure the roads linking government controlled cities in the west of the country the opposition is promising a fight and then a bit of mctear they weren't able to hurt us with the are two they're a shining and they did try to advance on the ground they failed we warn them that if they want to fight they will lose a lot of men. every so often the army drops leaflets on these besieged neighborhoods demanding rebels to reconcile with the government surrender and leave or face attack that's the way the government takes areas by imposing sieges and

then bombing the rebels and the population into submission. we fear they might displace us just like they did to others in other places people are petrified because they don't want to be left without homes or shelter. hundreds of thousands of syrians have been forced from their homes because of these so-called reconciliation or evacuation deals and they know returning is only a distant possibility. to be displaced i want to stay with my family and friends i don't want to go anywhere else to be humiliated. holmes is not the government's only target there is a rebel enclave forty kilometers northeast of the capital damascus rebels in the western region have been given an ultimatum to accept a state to rule or leave the faction in the town of the mayor has agreed to surrender to stave off a military offensive the opposition has little chance of winning the battles in the

northern countryside of homs and in the western and crave those areas are under siege they have been for years but it's only recently that the army has been able to apply military pressure throughout the conflict the pro-government alliance suffered from a manpower shortage and has had to prioritize battles. now the army is mobilizing on the front lines in southern damascus. and the opposition controls a number of districts there it seems the priority will be the battle with before a deal is offered to the rebels that would end all opposition presence in and around the capital where thousands gather to celebrate syria's independence day and this year the government is marking the anniversary from a position of strength has never been this comfortable since the start of the conflict more than seven you. jennifer their ashes into the group's russia says international inspectors will learn to do more on wednesday to investigate a suspected chemical attack the world's chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c.

w held emergency talks were envoys traded accusations the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the site for moscow said the delay concerned security a fact finding team landed in damascus and saturday it will establish if an attack took place for one to assign blame the russian envoy to the o.p.c. w accused british intelligence of fabricating v. attack. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely that this provocation was organized with the help of the british intelligence services. or list by that the syrian government allowed journalists went to duma as part of an organized media tour they were given access to a field hospital where medical staff told reporters no patients suffered from toxic gas symptoms other residents recalled a strong chlorine smell blamed the attack on rebel fighters the tour did not

include the building where syrian activists medics say more than forty people were killed us president donald trump is personal lawyers failed in a bid to keep service business documents secret the items were seized in a raid on michael cohen's office last week while investigators looking into his dealings with an adult film star who says she had an affair with trump which he denies a judge in new york also forced cohen to reveal another of his well known clients kristen salumi reports. attorneys for michael cohen and president trump asked the judge not to give investigators documents seized by the f.b.i. until they could review them and citing attorney client privilege to protect the identity of other cohen clients but the judge denied the motion and outed one high profile client conservative fox news commentator and trump supporter sean hannity hannity says he discussed real estate issues with cohen who's an old friend

attorney michael cohen is the one under investigation in the proceedings taking place here in the federal courthouse in manhattan but it's a possibility that new information could come to light from those seized documents about president truong and his alleged affair with a porn star that's attracting so much attention thank you very much thank you. investigators are looking for possible criminal activity surrounding cohen's one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment to stormy daniels who says she was paid to keep quiet about her brief two thousand and six relationship with the president. my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened and i give my word that we will not rest until that happens. she is suing for defamation of character and her lawyer says the seize documents could be important to their case and dangerous to anyone who's dealt with cohen he is radio active anyone that had any contact with this man in the last

twenty years should be very concerned about what secrets of theirs are within these documents the judge is yet to decide who will review the documents which include information about the president's business before they're given to investigators cohen's attorneys have asked for the appointment of a so-called special master to do the job there typically an independent lawyer who decides what prosecutors can see the prosecutors argue cohen doesn't need these special protections regardless of who represents christian salumi al jazeera new york. canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats posted in cuba after new information on mysterious illnesses which of affected stuff and its have on the embassy diplomats from canada and the u.s. first reported symptoms of headaches dizziness and nausea last year new medical specialists say they may have brain injuries cuban officials say they don't know what's behind the incidents. in america and it's a looser newman is in havana with more. the latest episode in the saga involving

health issues afflicting diplomats from the united states and canada here in cuba involves the families of canadian diplomat the canadian government says it is now withdrawing these families because it cannot guarantee their health this after more than a year of investigations carried out by cuban american and canadian specialists they've never been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation as to what has been ailing or what was ailing these diplomats in two thousand and seventeen the symptoms were knowledge or headaches dizziness among others and now the canadians are saying that there could even be some brain damage involved last year the company ministration practically shut down its embassy here in cuba withdrawing most of its diplomatic staff saying that their health could not be guaranteed the cuban government has repeatedly denied carrying out any sort of acoustic or any other type of attack against american or canadian

diplomats in this country but this latest incident now involving the withdrawal of the families of the canadian diplomats comes at a particularly sensitive time just two days before president raul castro is due to step down signaling the end of a sixty year castro era in communist cuba the philippines government is demanding justice for a filipino maid who was allegedly forced to drink bleach by her saudi boss. is recovering after emergency surgery in the saudi port city of joy she says her employer made her drink the household bleach when she didn't make it to properly same employer is accused of not feeding months for more than a month and stopping her from speaking to her family for almost two years. on al-jazeera. i'm very sorry for any confusion or anxiety fact is that i'm doing the wrong as the british government announces a plan to address rights of some of the caribbean in the plus. up to

the plate to be a. voice of the black lives of math a movement now kendrick lamar's won a prestigious prize. and i want can you say about the spring in north america is still got virtually every type of weather including mostly wintry weather this is an active frontal system the chance of its freezing rain just an interesting picture this is from the canadian side of naga falls more or less not freezing rain and the result they're off you can do nothing with it and wait for it to melt really on the big system is still with us so there's more rain to come to spring up through the east side of canada still plenty of snow potential there and for the next un team as we got snow

falling persistently you know terry i mean again for the south west virginia's got snow to come still i'm coming down the rockies in the cascades is more snow i was well it doesn't look like mid april there is won't for the south but not a huge amount twenty nine lance's crept up to twenty one and in florida the weather has indeed settled down not seeing the end of it there look at this another tongue of stuff coming across the plain states to the be the west and that's just wednesday for the south of remains of that active cold front that did indeed bring i think tornadoes to florida is still there visible forecast was we're talking about a few potentially big showers in cuba and back towards guatemala and honduras. there are seven million kids in this school. each one is still.

wants to be seen. to be. the monster. it is going to be when. we look human children. and she says you know. you're watching i'll just remind top stories this hour pro-government media are reporting missile strikes on two syrian airbases syrian state television says missiles were intercepted over shy about in homs has media says

a field was attacked the u.s. says its military was not active in the area at the time. russia says international inspectors willing to do more on wednesday to investigate. the u.s. accuses russia of tampering with a cyber basco says the concerns security. a t.v. presenter caught up in the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has admitted he gave secret legal advice to fox news host sean hannity who has been a prominent critic of the f.b.i.'s investigation into the u.s. president's russia's highs. britain's prime minister has been defending her decision to join the u.s. and france airstrikes over syria the opposition says tourism a should have asked for parliament's approval first it's called for a debate on tuesday to make that a requirement for future attacks john how reports. haven't faced

a barrage of criticism over the weekend to use it made her case to parliament that bombing syria had been both morally and legally justifiable it was not she said about intervening in a civil war nor about regime change but about humanitarian necessity saving in syria's civilians from future chemical weapons attack as a legal basis for military intervention we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized either within syria on the streets of the u.k. or elsewhere so we have not done this because president trump asked us to do so we have done it because we believed it was the right thing to do and we are not very many m.p.'s including in her own party a furious that parliament was not consulted first as is the convention in britain since the iraq war in two thousand and three the leader of the opposition led the charge mr speaker this statement serves as a reminder the prime minister is accountable to this parliament not to the whims of

the us president i there is no more serious issue than the life and death matters of military action it is right that parliament has the power to support or stop the government from taking planned military action i. to resume a sword to justify her sidelining of parliament last week by citing the need to act quickly to prevent further attack and saying that high level intelligence could not have been shared with them ps in advance the rather damning opposition claim instead is that she rushed to support donald trump and feared that if she. put it to a vote she did last the prime minister's performance will not satisfy all far from it and certainly not protesters outside. on the basis of. chemical weapons attack. without

a vote in parliament because i don't like the law and i don't see any reason. you know democracy why we have the vote. that she's a maze not you know. what the u.k. government insists there are no plans for further attacks in syria that presumably will change if there's another chemical weapon attack jonah hill al jazeera london and the un says ongoing fighting in the democratic republic of congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al-jazeera is marking why it is retracing the journey of the refugees from uganda's capital come to ching wylie refugee camp then towards the. site where many of the refugees arrived by boat he sent us this report near the town of bunia our way company the governor on a visit to the areas affected by ethnic violence. homes made of plastic sheet don't help much in the rain. all people have in this camp at this

place people in the town of in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut in killed people with machetes and burned houses. government says the situation is now under control. we joined the provincial governor on a visit to the conflict area. it's remote it's barely roads. he found small towns full of people who fled the countryside came to hear what the governor had to say. the governor saying there must be peace encouraging people to go home and saying the government will do all it can to provide security for the people here a skeptical about his method. in each town we visit more displaced people who say it's not safe to go home alone the attackers are all from eleven to ethnic groups the victims are ethnic hemas and some lenders to two groups have been rivals

in the past but most people here say there is no ethnic conflict right now majority prisk is a hammer with many lendu friends. but as they like they're telling us the government is responsible for what's going on that this is a war of the government they're saying this to us every day. many people here have told us they share the same suspicion of the government's role that the u.n. doesn't have the world's second largest peacekeeping force here we met the mission's chief visiting one of the camps if airline fisting that it's a new nuclear conflict but nobody knowing who is behind i didn't know a turd at all that the government is i did not heard that. the government in kinshasa denies involvement as did the provincial governor. i want to assure everyone that the government has done nothing even the provincial government has done nothing we don't have any interest in destabilizing our own territory or

killing our own population whoever is behind the violence convincing the population to return won't be easy most homes remain deserted. behind them two fresh graves of those killed some hacked to death others burned in their homes it will take a lot to convince people it's safe here malcolm webb al-jazeera through the province in the democratic republic of congo the risk of moment has apologized to thousands of members of the caribbean community who have lived and worked in the u.k. for decades but are now being treated as immigrants fifty thousand people who came from the west indies to britain after the second world war maybe affected phillips reports he came to britain from barbados when he was nine years old more than fifty years ago his father had a job at the post office michael married in britain had children grandchildren worked in education thought he was british until the government told him he didn't

have the right documents he lost his job as he fought for the right to stay here if i was deported i don't know what i would to take someone and i could have no no worse because that is what they do. you know it's about work what you know what you could do for you to help britain being a better place than it was a rival of more than four hundred. the so-called women dress a generation named after a ship that carried the first arrivals from the caribbean in the one nine hundred forty eight invited to britain given citizenship it's many of the children who travelled with their parents who are now facing difficulties some of been caught out by strict new laws strict new laws specifying documents they need to prove how long they've been hearing this could not have blown up at a more embarrassing time for the british government the very week in which your hosts the commonwealth summit in which it's busy emphasising its friendship with

former colonies as it prepares to leave the e.u. . ministers told parliament they're trying to repair the damage with a special team to help the wind generation a promise to resolve their cases quickly free of charge although the government isn't sure whether some people have already been distorted in error. can she tell the house how many have been detained as prisoners in their own country can she tell the house how many have been to noise on the national health service how many have denied pensions how many have lost their job this is a day of national shape mr speaker i shan't be a little gentleman's admiration for the people who came here from the caribbean and contributed so much to our society in many many different ways and that admiration remains in place i am concerned that the home office is becoming test become too concerned with policy and strategy and sometimes lose sight of the individual. who

is in charge of the home office with these new stricter policies were being designed yes today's prime minister to resign may so as the public outcry grows there's now a political as well as moral imperative to treat the when dressed generation fairly barnaby phillips al-jazeera london. so evacuees interior minister has resigned after less than a month on the job he's the latest politician to step down following protests against the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiance stahl reports. these weekly protests in bratislava have claimed another political scout tens of thousands of slovaks rallies through their capital on sunday demanding the head of the police force step down their anger over what they say is his failure to investigate the murder of a journalist yan could see ak political corruption instead of the police chief it was the interior minister who resigned on monday. if i think that the farting of

the police chief is not right it would create polarization of the public and sort of soothing the situation in our country i think that under these circumstances i have no for the right to be the interior minister that's why i've decided to put my resignation in the hands of the president. thomas drucker is the second interior minister to quit fairly three weeks after he took over from robert can even act that was part of a cabinet reshuffle when the former prime minister. stepped down and in his six years in the row. did so smarr party is the biggest block in the three party coalition government it's been crisis since the journalist in february young could see back and his fiance were killed in execution style murders at their home at the time the twenty seven year old was proving state corruption and alleged links between the government and the mafia and the theft of european aid fun one of

the companies he was investigating is owned by relatives of the current police chief the same person who's been put in charge of the investigation the killings. despite offering the one point two million dollar reward for information on those responsible and the arrest of seven people no one has been prosecuted for the murders despite the latest resignation on monday the current prime minister has backed a controversial police chief and praised his professionalism it's likely to mean protests like this will continue. their. opposition m.p.'s have called for more protests after several people were injured when police fired stun grenades and tear gas at thousands of demonstrators traffic was blocked in the capital of the protests against the former president's plan to return to. this president from two thousand and eight and then he was forced to step down this year because of term limits he sets of you proved as prime minister on tuesday or

the other. use it as a move for him to remain in power indefinitely. kendrick lamar's become the first raffo to win the prestigious pulitzer prize for music the announcement for his album means it's the first long classical jazz work the award either jocasta reports. called the voice of a generation thirty year old kendrick lamar's mixes hip hop with poetry and political protest his common subjects of race police brutality and perseverance made his songs the anthem of the black lives matter movement in the united states. his politically charged performances like this one on top of a vandalized police car have also triggered conservative backlash they're not helpful at all this is why i say that hip hop is that more damage to young african-americans than racism in recent years but it was with

a quiet delight that the administrator of the pulitzer prize announced on monday that lamar's latest album was to be honored with this year's award a virtual stick song collection unified by its for nakheel or authenticity and rhythmic dima to some that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern african american life well maher is the most commercially successful musician to have won the pulitzer prize with his albums selling out at record stores he is also the first non classical or jazz artist to win the honor legitimizing rap music as critically acclaimed art lamar says his music is a reflection of his background the son of a former gang member now a cultural icon who is recognized for his contribution to american arts and music castro al-jazeera washington. much more on our website the address that to you is al-jazeera.

let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now pro-government media reporting missile strikes on two syrian air bases syrian state television says missiles were intercepted over sheraton homes and hezbollah media say the mio airfield was attacked to the u.s. as its military is not active in the area at that time russia says international inspectors will and to do more on wednesday diversity if this is back to chemical attack the u.s. accuses russia of tampering with the site though moscow says that the leg concerns security the russian envoy to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has accused british intelligence of fabricating the attack. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely that this provocation was

organized with the help of the british intelligence services a t.v. presenter is now being caught up in the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen he's admitted he gave secret legal advice to fox news host sean hannity who's been a prominent critic of the f.b.i. sophistication into the u.s. president's russia ties the philippine government is demanding justice for a filipino maid who was allegedly forced to drink bleach by her saudi boss i mean this man is recovering after emergency surgery in the sally port city of san she says her employer made her drink the household bleach when she didn't make properly the same employer is accused of not feeding him and sort of for more than a month stopping her from speaking to her family from most two years. so vikas interior minister says he'll resign after weeks of protests over the murder of a journalist almost

a second into. the stand down after investigative reporter and his fiance was shot dead in february prime minister robert stood down last one opposition m.p.'s in armenia have called for more protests after several people were injured when police fired stun grenades and tear gas at thousands of demonstrators. and served as president from two thousand and eight was forced to step down earlier this year because of term limits. now stay with us fifty three member state. one night conic figurehead as leaders of the commonwealth descend on london bridge by any meeting asks how much does the commonwealth matter in today's world and where does it go after queen elizabeth all of the commonwealth heads of government meeting on al-jazeera.